(Net News Publisher) More than 34,000 youngsters, teachers and parents around the country have had a chance to learn about bioenergy through hands-on experiments that are part of an outreach effort by the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center....6/2

(R & D Magazine) Physicists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, and Germany's GSI in Darmstadt recently used ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to explore the pair bonding of neutrons in one uncommon isotope—germanium-72....6/2

DOE

(Knoxville News Sentinel) Reports have been circulating for more than a month about changes in the works at DOE's Oak Ridge office, and Interim Manager Paul Golan today began addressing some of those changes publicly....6/2

Other Stories

(Government Computer News) A continuing series of high-profile security breaches, capped by reports that the Google Gmail accounts of some government and industry officials have been compromised, illustrates the need for agencies to focus on the basics of cybersecurity....6/2

(Washington Post) The bacterium that has killed more than a dozen Europeans, sickened nearly 2,000 more and raised international alarms would be legal if it were found on meat or poultry in the United States....6/3

State & Regional

(Tennessean) The TVA board will be asked this summer to approve completion of the long-dormant Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant, according to Tom Kilgore, the public power producer's president and CEO....6/3

energy & science policy

(AIP Bulletin) "This is a fair bill that recognizes the stark fiscal reality that faces our country. The subcommittee has worked hard to ensure that our highest priorities - defense of our country and support for American innovation and competitiveness - receive critical funding." So said Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)....6/2

science & technology

(Washington Post) Scientists have found complex, multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planet's surface – raising new possibilities about life on Earth and other planets and moons....6/1

(Science Daily) A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive and up to seven times faster than current state-of-the-art solid-state drives....6/2

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